Whilst I watch the recent crypto meltdown with glee, I’m afraid that some of the blame on the irrational exuberance of investors speculators bidding up shitcoin prices have been somewhat misplaced. Some narratives blame excess liquidity, – in some parts stemming from stimulus cheques handed out during the pandemic – enticing pundits to swarm into…
Hello Again
So if you’ve been reading the news, you’d know that Twitter has been bought over by an absolute turd of a person. What will change once he fully takes the reins remains to be seen, but if his character is anything to go by, I doubt it’ll be any good. I suppose that means that…
Home Brewer Series: Chapter 4
I know I’ve left this blog a little dusty. I haven’t forgotten this place, I promise. I have a lot i I want to write about, but every time, I feel like I don’t know enough of that thing. I’ll be back, I promise, but in the meantime, here’s something I wrote about coffee! We’re…
What a time
Day by day, annoyance at this government does nothing but escalate. From half assed-last-minute-bound-to-change SOPs, to taking very little accountability to mucking up our vaccine distribution. Imagine a government, given emergency powers (medical emergency or political emergency, our constitution really doesn’t differentiate – emergency is emergency), but has zero fortitude to impose measures required –…
ASB Financing – calculating the returns
In my last post I talked about ASB loans vs. periodic savings, so here I’ll delve a little further into calculating returns. One of the main concerns raised is that the loan is only beneficial for as long as your returns exceed the interest rates charged by the banks. For example, if the bank charges…
ASB Financing – how does it work?
Ages ago, I wrote a post briefly talking about ASB loans, and how they work, some people found it useful, so I thought I’d reproduce it here. One of my earliest tasks when I first started working as a personal financial consultant was to promote the ASB loan to prospective bumiputera clients. The product, offered…
Impostor syndrome
Wow, it’s been about two months since I wrote anything here. Since then, many things have changed, and some things, not at all. Does that make sense? Looking back at my previous technical analysis post, I surmise that I was dead wrong. Glove stocks didn’t tank, they’re neither here, neither there. The KLCI also is…
Technically speaking – The End of The Game?
The melody can’t find youI’m incomplete without youI guess we’ve reached the end of the gameOoh, hit me Weezer, 2020 For a lot of investors, 2020 has been a year of good (mis)fortune. If anyone managed to ride in early on the glove euphoria – and hopefully managed to hop off midway – they would…
Technically Speaking – Here we are, again
I’ve said recently that I would try to avoid writing another financial market update, but, I’ve relented, and here we are, again, with another post about the financial market – the KLCI to be specific. This year has been an interesting one on the stock exchange. Despite moribund overall economic outlook, the stock market has…
Coffee and I
Originally posted on Ame's Monologues:
How did I get myself into coffee? “oh, you studied in Melbourne! Coffee Mecca of the world (I’d bet some folks from Seattle might have a thing or to to say about that), of course you’d be into coffee! How could you not?!” The thing is, as far as…
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